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1. The Value and Limits of Rights

   Essays in Honour of Peter Jones

   Edited by Ian O'Flynn, Albert Weale FBA

   Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagreement about just how valuable rights are and what their proper limits ought to be. For example, some scholars and practitioners maintain that human...

   To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Democratic Politics and Party Competition

   Edited by Judith Bara, Albert Weale

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
3. Political Theory and the European Union

   Legitimacy, Constitutional Choice and Citizenship

   Edited by Michael Nentwich, Albert Weale

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
4. Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe

   Edited by Percy B. Lehning, Albert Weale

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   The contributors to this study address the question of how political theory is relevant to the construction of new Europe and the tie-in issues of citizenship, social justice and political legitimacy. By using techniques of contemporary political theory, the book argues that the emergence of new...

   Published August 13th 1997 by Routledge